Articles by Alyn Griffiths

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Dominique Coulon & Associés adds curved glass extension to library in a renovated French manor

March 28, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
Piero Bottero Media Library

Dominique Coulon & Associés has converted a manor house in the French town of Pélissanne into a library with a glass-fronted extension that looks onto a leafy public park. Located in the heart of the formerly fortified town in Provence, the Piero Bottero Media Library is named for a French fiction writer who spent most of

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Office S&M uses “trending colours” for characterful extension to colour consultant’s home

March 27, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A kitchen extension clad in pink concrete

Office S&M has completed a colourful extension to Overcast House in north London, which features on-trend hues such as Millennium Pink and Mint Green. Local studio Office S&M, which is headed by architects Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen, added a ground-floor kitchen extension to the Victorian terraced house in Haringey. As one of the clients works as

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Casanova + Hernandez completes patterned public square based on an Albanian carpet

March 24, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
An aerial view of a patterned public plaza

Dutch studio Casanova + Hernandez has completed a landscaping project in the Albanian village of Shiroka, comprising a waterfront plaza and streetscape that uses granite stones to replicate a traditional carpet pattern. The Rotterdam-based studio was commissioned by the Albanian Development Fund to oversee the redevelopment of the waterfront on the shores of Shkodra Lake,

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Casanova + Hernandez completes patterned public square based on an Albanian carpet

March 24, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
An aerial view of a patterned public plaza

Dutch studio Casanova + Hernandez has completed a landscaping project in the Albanian village of Shiroka, comprising a waterfront plaza and streetscape that uses granite stones to replicate a traditional carpet pattern. The Rotterdam-based studio was commissioned by the Albanian Development Fund to oversee the redevelopment of the waterfront on the shores of Shkodra Lake,

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Charged Voids completes Chandigarh student housing informed by Le Corbusier

March 23, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A student accommodation block informed by Le Corbusier

Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed a student housing block in a suburb of Chandigarh, featuring brightly coloured surfaces and columns that reference the architecture of pioneering modernist Le Corbusier. The accommodation building forms part of the campus of the Chandigarh Group of Colleges, which is situated in the Landran district of Mahali –

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Holes and windows create “abstract composition” on facades of Mallorcan holiday home

March 21, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The minimalist exterior of Lover's House by Isla Architects

Large openings frame views of the swimming pool and surrounding landscape from the living spaces and terraces of this holiday home on the island of Mallorca, designed by local studio Isla Architects. Isla Architects was asked to adapt and improve a house already under construction to create a property that would stand out in the

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Hugo Pereira completes angular concrete house on Portuguese hilltop

March 16, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A hilltop concrete house with a roof terrace

Portuguese architect Hugo Pereira has completed an angular concrete house in the town of Celorico de Basto, Portugal with glass-walled living spaces that look out onto courtyard gardens and a swimming pool. Located on a 12,000-square-metre plot in the Braga district, the house was designed by Pereira’s studio to make the most of the views

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Out of the Valley designs and builds a cedar-clad cabin on an English farm

March 15, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The exterior of the Holly Water cabin in Devon

Architecture and design office Out of the Valley has completed a wooden holiday cabin on a farm in Devon, England, featuring a mono-pitched roof and sliding doors that open onto a sheltered veranda. The Holly Water holiday retreat was designed and built by Out of the Valley for clients who wanted to add a self-contained

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Krads completes green-roofed Icelandic holiday home overlooking Lake Thingvallavatn

March 12, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A black house with a green roof in rural Iceland

This holiday home designed by architecture office KRADS features large openings that frame views of Iceland’s Lake Thingvallavatn, and a turfed roof to help it blend in with its natural surroundings. The property is located on a lush hillside that slopes north towards the rift-valley lake in southwestern Iceland that is known locally as Þingvallavatn.

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Smartvoll creates stone spa as “a 21st-century temple of relaxation”

March 8, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The floor plan for a private spa by Smartvoll

Architecture studio Smartvoll has completed a private spa in the Austrian village of Hinterbrühl with vertical and horizontal stone blocks used to enclose itss various functional zones. The spa pavilion, which is connected to a villa built at the turn of the 20th century by a tunnel, was designed by Vienna-based Smartvoll ito be “a 21st-century temple of

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